{"id":8136,"date":"2019-10-22T10:33:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T17:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=8136"},"modified":"2020-07-16T22:23:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T05:23:47","slug":"door-stoppers-pinch-guards-for-your-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/22\/door-stoppers-pinch-guards-for-your-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Door Stoppers \/ Pinch Guards for Your Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/door-stop-pinch-guard-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/door-stop-pinch-guard-1-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/door-stop-pinch-guard-1-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/door-stop-pinch-guard-1-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/door-stop-pinch-guard-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/door-stop-pinch-guard-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/door-stop-pinch-guard-1-50x38.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/door-stop-pinch-guard-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a>Problem: At my school, I often want to keep my heavy, automatically-locking door open just a crack so I and the kids can get back in. Using a traditional wedge door-stop works but it often gets stepped on, kicked or misplaced. Now I use these pinch guards. When not in use, I use Velcro (AKA hook and loop fasteners) on the wall to keep them close-by. All-in, they cost less than $4 per door and they work very well!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B07J65FZ3J\">Pinch-guard<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B07CMQGBK1\">Self Adhesive Hook and Loop Tape (Velcro)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some tips and notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use long pieces of Velcro on both the pinch-guard and the doorway, it makes it easier to stick them to the wall quickly.<\/li>\n<li>For the Velcro, remember to put the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/praacticalaac.org\/praactical\/the-velcro-rule-with-jeanne-tuthill\/\">soft on the surface<\/a>&#8220;. It makes it easier to feel the rough part on the pinch guard and it&#8217;s good to establish that as the norm in your room, you can stick objects onto fabric (a good stand-in for soft Velcro).<\/li>\n<li>The glue on the velcro didn&#8217;t hold to the pinch guard perfectly so I added staples.<\/li>\n<li>I had tried similar, popular horseshoe-shaped pinch guards but they didn&#8217;t work well on my thick door with a strong closer.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s nice that this white pinch guard is easy to see on the door from a distance. Regular doorstops can be hard to see.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/door-stop-pinch-guard-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8138 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/door-stop-pinch-guard-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/door-stop-pinch-guard-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/door-stop-pinch-guard-2-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/door-stop-pinch-guard-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/door-stop-pinch-guard-2-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/door-stop-pinch-guard-2-50x38.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/door-stop-pinch-guard-2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/door-guard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8144\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/door-guard-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/door-guard-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/door-guard-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/door-guard-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/door-guard-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/door-guard-38x50.jpg 38w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/door-guard.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>Update 10-29-19: These pinch guards are standing up to normal use but not rough abuse from my students in my classrooms. A student doesn&#8217;t have to be strong to tear it apart. I&#8217;ve come across a very sturdy rubber-plastic door pinch-guard but I don&#8217;t know where to buy more! Where can I buy more of these? They were apparently provided for all the classrooms when one of my schools was renovated in ~2007. See the photo to the right. This doorstop would be too heavy to hold in place with velcro so maybe the solution above is best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: At my school, I often want to keep my heavy, automatically-locking door open just a crack so I and the kids can get back in. Using a traditional wedge door-stop works but it often gets stepped on, kicked or misplaced. Now I use these pinch guards. When not in use, I use Velcro (AKA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-occupational-therapy","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8140,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136\/revisions\/8140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}